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VOL. XXIX
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS MAY 13, 1931
No. 33
AGGIE-STEERS FIGHT FOR CROWN
Longhorns To Be Issued Last Part
Of This Week In Battalion Office
“Originality” Heard
By Scholarship Club
“Originality” was the theme of a
talk by Professor D. B. Gofer of the
English department before a Scholar
ship Honor Society meeting in the
Asbury Room of the Library build
ing Friday night. Orders also were
taken for the new society pin which
was adopted by the organization re
cently.
Reynolds-Carpenter
Marriage Announced
Announcement has been received of
the marriage of Jack A. Reynolds of
Sherman, a junior in Company C En
gineers, to Miss Lois Carpenter of
San Benito. The ceremony was per
formed in Franklyn, Texas, on April
15. Mrs. Reynolds, a former student
of the College of Industrial Arts at
Denton, is now employed in the Ex
tension Service here.
Glee Club Trip
To Belton Ends
Year’s Program
The last trip of the Glee Club was
made Friday when it returned a past
visit of the Baylor Choral Club with
a program of varied musical selec
tions at the Baylor College for Wom
en. The club left here by bus, with
Willis Dobson of the department of
English as accompanist, and F. K.
Beach of the department of horticul
ture as director. While on the campus
of Baylor College they were showed
about the campus by the girls and
following the evening’s performance
were given a reception in Hardy hall.
This concludes a very successful
year of the club which was organized
at the first of the school year and
managed to finish with a membership
of thirty-seven, which is unusual for
so young an organization. Through
the able management of F. G. Sleep
er, student manager, they were able
to spend several days in a tour in
the northern part of the state, broad
casting and making public appear
ances several times a day.
Saddle And Sirloin
Dance Well Attended
Featuring a pastoral scene as a dec
orative motif, the Saddle and Sirloin
Club held its annual Cattlemen’s ball
in the Sbisa hall annex Friday night.
The annex walls were bedecked with
natural foliage, while the lights were
covered with huge crepe paper shades.
Mounted deer and cattle heads added
to the general attractiveness of the
scene.
Club members wore colored shirts
and ties, white pants, and vari-color-
ed sashes, while other male guests
were attired in white shirts and
trousers and black ties.
The Aggieland orchestra provided
the music for both this hop and the
corps dance held in the same place
Saturday night.
Business Manager To Announce
Details Later
Distribution of the 1931 Longhorn
will begin either the last of this week
or the first of next week, announce
ment received from Ed Moore, editor
discloses. They will be issued from
the office of The Battalion.
Both windows of the Battalion of
fice will be used for this purpose and
everything will be done to expedite
the issuance Moore said. Yellow slips,
or Longhorn identification cards, as
the business manager may direct,
must be presented. He also stated that
all men who are members of clubs
which have not paid for their space
in the club section, will be assessed a
proportionate share of the fee due.
This action has become necessary be
cause of a shortage of over $500 in the
club accounts.
In speaking of the results of the
year’s work on the publication, Moore
stated that the Longhorn staff rec
ognizes the right of the individual
student to criticize as he sees fit, but
they realize that they cannot please
everybody. They merely hope that
they are more pleased than angry.
Freshman Ball Team
Plays Tough Games
In four games played this weekend,
h-: Aggie freshman baseball club
emerged victorious in only one. After
’.osing to Allen Academy Thursday af
ternoon 10 to 3, and being swamped
by Lutheran Junior College 14 to 4
Friday evening, the freshmen came
back Saturday to win over the Luth
eran sluggers 7 to 3. They were de-
featcie again Monday evening 8 to 5
by Allen Academy.
Moon pitched nice ball Friday but
the Lu.herans took the breaks and
the ball game. White turned in a win
Saturday by holding the opposing bat
ters to three runs, and driving in
.our markers for the Aggie freshmen.
He collected three bingles in four
trips to the platter. Perronot hurled
against Allen Thursday; Fisher start
ed the game Monday and was reliev
ed by Moon.
The only home run was made by
Fisher after Weaver had drawn a
walk. Lowenstein, Fish, Cobb, and
Reid were the other heavy hitters.
The freshmen go to Brenham Fri
day to tangle with Blinn Memorial
College in two games. Blinn was de
feated in two of three games played
here on May 1 and 2.
Yell Practice Two
Nights This Week
Yell Practice will be held
Thursday and Friday nights
prior to the final championship
game with Texas Saturday it
was announced Wednesday by
senior yell leader Fred Buford.
It is probable that J. U. Parker,
recently elected chief yell lead
er for next year will announce
his staff at one of the meetings.
Both meetings will be held at
the “Y” steps, immediately af
ter supper
Future Farmers To
Banquet Next Week
C. H. Winkler Collegiate Chapter,
Future Farmers of America, will hold
a student-faculty banquet in the Sbisa
hall annex Thursday, May 21. Each
student member of the club may in
vite any faculty member he wishes
to attend the dinner.
Tuesday night the chapter held its
final regular meeting of the year in
the educational department offices.
D. H. Taylor, senior animal husbandry
student from Victoria, is president of
the club-
Commencement
Program Full
Plans for commencement this year
state that C. E. Calder, president of
the American and Foreign Power
Company of New York, is to deliver
the commencement address and that
R. Wallace Bassett, pastor of the
Cliff Temple Baptist Church, Dallas,
is to deliver the bacculaureate sermon
for the 1931 graduating class were
made known this morning by Dr.
E. P. Humbert, who has charge of
the program this year. With the
selection of the officer to give the
reserve commissions to the reserve
officers, the plans will be complete.
A review honoring “T” men and in
tramural winners, the baccalaureate
sermon, and a band concert Sunday,
May 24, will inaugurate senior week,
and no other activities are scheduled
for the seniors until Thursday, when
competitive drill by the Ross Volun
teers in the afternoon and an inform
al reception by President and Mrs.
T. O. Walton at their home in the
evening, will complete the day.
Friday will be more complete, how
ever, for plans call for departmental
inspection in the morning and a live
stock show, exhibition drill by Ros^
Volunteers and formal presentation
of reserve commissions in the after
noon and the final ball in the even
ing.
Saturday, the final day of school,
will be featured by the commence
ment pi'ocessional, commencement
exercises and the graduating review
at 12:30 p.m.
Game Saturday Between Old Rivals
Reminiscence of Past Contests
Henry Wofford R. Y.
Drill Medal Winner
Henry Rollins Wofford, Jr., Troop
A, Cavalry, was awarded the Ross
Volunteer best-drilled medal Sunday
for the year 1931. Presentation was
made by R. V. Captain Day McNeet
following a competitive drill held as
part of the Mothers’ Day program.
Following an exhibition drill, the
R. V. Company was lined up and jud
ged on an individual basis on profi
ciency in the manual of arms by
Majors J. E. Sloan, J. P. Wheeler and
B. F. Delmameter. The ranks were
thinned until but five men were left,
and these were finally graded by the
judges, Wofford being selected.
The Ross Volunteer medal is simi
lar to those presented the best drilled
men in the corps units with the ex
ception that it has the Ross Volunteer
insignia instead of the military branch
designation.
Dean Kyle Speaks
At Senior Banquet
E. J. Kyle, dean of the school of
agriculture, was the principal speaker
at the final senior banquet Monday
night, may 11th. His topic dealt v nil
the organization and the work o' the
Former Students Associaimn and m
eluded an explanation of the financial
and social activities of the organvx-
tion.
Among the seniors who also de
livered impromptu addresses were
Maivin Hays, vice-president of the
senior class, Fred Buford, chief yell
leader, and R N. Winders, business
manager of the Battalion. Ray Walk
er, president of the senior class, acted
as toastmaster.
Dr. Bizzell Talks To
Science And Social
Science Seminars
“The schools of today are returning
to a realization of the impm'tance of
the place held by science. We cannot
accept everything blindly in the name
of science but we must let a scientific
hypothesis prove itself.”
So said Dr. W. B. Bizzell, Univer
sity of Oklahoma president and for
mer president of A and M Tuesday
night in an address at the annual
spring banquet of the Science and the
Social Science Seminars in the Sbi :
hall annex.
New officers of the two clubs who
were inducted into office at the ban
quet were: (Social Science Seminar,
J. W. Barger, president; L. G. Jones,
vice-president; and C. H. Winkler, sec
retary. (Science Seminar) E. E.
Vezey, president; F. A. Burt, vice-
presdient; and J. T. Lonsdale, secre
tary.
Fire Stops “The Man
Who Came Back”
Visiting mothers and campus
people were afforded quite a
thrill Saturday night when the
second performance of “The Man
Who Came Back” was brought
to an abrupt end by a small fire
in the projection room of the
Assembly Hall. The flames com
pletely destroyed one reel of
film and did slight damage to
the projecting machines. Chief
operator Ray Hirons was repair
ing one of the machines when
the conflagration started. Im
mediately all fire doors and
shutters were closed so as to
prevent the flames from spread
ing. The automatic sprinklers
with which the projection room
is equipped, soon smothered the
I iaue. The entire audience left
the hall without confusion, there
being but a small crowd in at
tendance at the time.
Early Tuesday the Y M C A
announced that the regular
schedule of pictures would con
tinue without interruption as
necessary repairs would be made
before Wednesday night.
Expected Victory Of Texas Over
Rice Will Tie A & M And
Texas For Lead
Visions of the days of old, when
the final Aggie-Longhorn game meant
the championship title will be re-in-
acted at College Saturday, May 16th,
when Coach Roswell Higganbotham’s
league leading A & M ball club will
take on the Texas Longhorn’s for the
deciding game of the Southwest Con
ference baseball title T'ace. The Steers
will come to College following a game
with the Rice Owls on Friday after
noon at Houston.
For the last 17 years the Longhorns
have ruled supreme on the Southwes
tern diamond’s and their undisputed
rule has at last been challenged by the
Maroon and White team. Practically
every year the A & M team has fin
ished in an upper berth, but has never
been able to successfully stem the
Orange and White stampede of ball
players.
At the present time, A & M is in the
lead of the percentage column, having
playing one more game than the
Steers, however, each team has lost
only one game during the season. Tex
as having lost their game to Baylor
early in the season and in turn de
feating the Aggies at Austin for their
only defeat during the season.
The game will probably draw the
largest attendance of any game play
ed in the conference this season as
it is the first time in years that the
title has been decided by the curtain
ringer of the conference schedule.
. Mike De LaFuente, ace of the Long
horn pitching staff, will probably draw
the assignment to match the hurlings
of Marshal Shaw, leading Aggie pitch
er. In addition to settling the pennant
title, this game will probably settle
the title of leading conference pich-
er. LaFuente blanked the Aggies 8-0
at their last meeting. Squawk Velt-
man, Captain Beau Bell, and Ernest
Koy will be battling to settle the po
sition of leading hitter for the con
ference. Veltman is in the lead at pres
ent as Koy went hitless in the Texas-
Baylor game.
The probable line ups;
Texas Position A & M
Lamm First Base Carpenter
White Second Base Davis
Williams Third Base Pampell
Ater Short Stop Henderson
Baumgarten Left Field Bell
Koy Center Field Veltman
Sullivan Right Field Mitchell
Bloebaum Catcher Garvey
Fuentes Pitcher Shaw
After the last out is made in the
game Saturday, six members of the
A & M team automatically close their
career as conference base ball players,
di e to graduation or ineligibility for
further participation. Captain Beau
Sell, centeriielder; Ab Hawes, pitch
er; Pampell, third baseman; Hender
son, short stop; and Hoke and Em
mons, first basemen are the players
who will be lost from Coach Higgan
botham’s nine.
The adoption of a new uniform for
the Band is being considered by the
I college officials.